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There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry. If you visit Milan's Chinatown, it
by wenc 9y ago
There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry.
If you visit Milan's Chinatown, it is full of textile and clothing shops as opposed to most Chinatowns around the world which are dominated by food and grocery stores.
- lvoudour 9y ago>There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry. That's exactly what the article is about :)
- tyu100 9y agoThis was one of the best didn't read the articles I've seen in a while.
- lormayna 9y agoI'm from Prato. The Chineses do not produce fabrics in Prato, they just sewing clothes.
- LoSboccacc 9y agoPrato is one of the most talked about because of the high contrast between irregular workers (wether legally resident or otherwise) working for the high margin high fashion industry, but there are a lot similar realities like these to be found everywhere. I.E a big earthquake happened a while ago in romagna and the most surprising fact was that once the chinese sweatshop were evaquated the local pupulation found themselves almost outnumbered by them in certain areas.